Norwish Recipes

I grew up on Jiffy cornbread, which is really just corn-flavored bread.  When a lot of folks list cornbread recipes, they go for this classic flavor by adding a mix of gluten-free flours, gums, and sugar.  Turns out, you don't need any of that.  Classic southern cornbread is simple, slightly crumbly, and naturally gluten-free. Ingredients: 2 Cups cornmeal* 2 Cups buttermilk or plain yogurt 2 eggs 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 1/4 cup fat: butter, bacon grease, or vegetable shortening I use a 12" cast-iron skillet for this, but you can use a 9x11 baking dish instead if you don't have one. Pre-heat the oven to 425 degrees Farenheit Melt the fat in the microwave, and grease the skillet or baking dish well Combine all the ingredients and pour into the skillet or baking dish; let it rest for at least 10 minutes, or as long as the oven takes to pre-heat (resting makes it fluff up and soaks the cornmeal) Bake 15-20 minutes until a toothpick comes out...

For the second day of BM#61 Week 3, its a brownie made with peanut butter chips. Yes the chips that Priya Srinivasan gifted us last year and I suddenly remembered it after couple of my BM buddies used it in their bakes recently. I was meeting a blogger friend for lunch and felt I should carry a cake for her. What better than a chocolate cake at that!  So it turned out that I baked a brownie in hurry late night, left it in the oven to cool down and packed it to carry for lunch. I baked two boxes as I knew my kids would want to taste it too. I ended up enjoying it and had couple of the pieces, other than that, everything got over. These are surely something I would ask for again.. Now this brownie oddly makes about 20+ brownies on my blogs. When I had done the Bakeathon, this was on the list and sadly didn't' get to be baked. So I am glad to have finally baked this. Chocolate Brownie with Peanut Butter Chips Ingredients Needed: Dry Ingredients ...

There ought to be a story accompanying sinful cupcakes. Yes today's cupcake has one too and I am not beyond sharing it with you all right now. The occasion was that I was meeting my BM buddies after six months. Come to think of it, I didn't realize its been so many months. However we have been planning for this meet quite sometime and finally decided we will meet whoever can make it for the day. So a special day like that demands I make a special dish right. Of course when the question of lunch came, few were okay with potluck. I didn't think it was on me to cook something special after making my regular Saturday breakfast and lunch for the family. I suggested Pizzas and guess what? Looks like the whole lot were deprived of a pizza treat and wanted to take up this offer. So it was pizza for lunch. Can anything be more appealing to me than this? Okay now change the scene to the d-day and we all plan heavily on when to meet and what else to get along. This is betwee...

For the final day of Baked snacks, I wanted to make a simple savory muffin with garlic and cheese. Konda and I love garlic that gets baked with cheese, so obviously thought this will make a great delicious breakfast dish.  I had a simple cheese muffin some years back and wanted to add some more to make it more exciting.   Garlic Cheese Muffins Ingredients Needed: All purpose flour / Maida - 1 cup Milk - 1/2 cup (more if needed) Baking powder - 1 1/2 tsp Cheddar Cheese - 1/2 cup Garlic cloves, grated - 2 to 3 Pepper to taste Salt to taste 1/2 tsp Red chili flakes Eggless Mayonnaise - 2 tbsp Melted butter Sugar - 1/2 tsp How to make the savory muffins Whisk together flour and milk, stir in cheese, minced garlic, baking powder, salt, red chili flakes, pepper, mayonnaise, and sugar. Spoon into a lightly greased muffin pan, or cups filling two-thirds full. Bake at 185C for 15 minutes or until golden. Brush with melted butter.

The recipe is based on the food sensitivity elimination diet we are doing, and uses up the safe chicken base created from the Crock Pot Chicken recipe.  If you don't start with the chicken, it might be difficult to find an elimination-diet-friendly chicken broth or stock, so you may need to wait until you have finished the diet first. Ingredients: 2 cups chicken broth (from crock pot chicken recipe) 4-6 cups fresh mushrooms, half chopped very fine, the other half sliced into bite-size pieces. 1/4  cup finely diced onions 1/2 cup full-fat coconut milk (use whole milk if dairy allowed) In a medium pot, cook mushrooms in a tablespoon either of skimmed fat from the cooled chicken drippings or olive oil, until water is mostly evaporated Add onions and cook until starting to brown Add chicken broth and cook for 10 minutes Remove from heat, let sit 5 minutes, then whisk in milk If casein is allowed, top with a light shredding of Parmesan cheese.  

The recipe is based on the food sensitivity elimination diet we are doing, and has the bonus of producing a safe chicken stock for other recipes, such as soups and stews. 4 chicken leg quarters 2 stalks celery 1 large carrot 1/4 large onion 2 cloves garlic 1/2 tsp dried rubbed sage 1/2 tsp dried thyme 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp pepper 2 tablespoons olive oil (use butter if you are not sensitive to dairy or casein) Chop veggies into chunks  Place chicken meaty-side down in a crock pot and layer veggies, herbs, and oil or butter over the top. Run the crockpot on high for 4 hours or low for 6-8, until chicken is fork-tender.  Add two hours if starting with frozen chicken.  Add a few tablespoons of water if needed to maintain moisture;you should have at least a cup of liquid in the bottom of the pot when you are finished.   Remove chicken and veggies to serving bowl. Pour remaining liquid through a fine sieve into a storage container (jar, tupperware, etc.). ...

For the second day of Baked Snacks, I made some Mathris, the Indian version of Crackers. I have made different types of crackers or Mathris, however when it was time to make some baked snacks for kids, I immediately remembered what Usha had made recently for Bakeathon.  While reading all the Bakeathon posts, I decided to try out all my bookmarks right away, instead of putting it for later. So you see I set out to make it right away! These baked mathris are very healthy as it uses only 2 tsp of oil and no butter, plus the fact that it uses more of wheat flour than anything else. The trick lies in rolling out as thin as possible. Sending this to PJ, who is guest hosting  my Kids Delight Event,  themed on  Baked Snacks. Baked Mathris Preparation: 15- 20 minutes Bake Time: 13 – 15 minutes Ingredients Needed: Wheat Flour - 1 cup  All-Purpose Flour - 1/2 cup Sooji or Rava - 1/4 cup Ajwain - 1 tbsp.  Black Pepper Pow...

The second drink that really had me was this orange chocolate drink I happened in read about. I am not a person who experiments with drinks, infact I am so fussy that I never change my standard drink. So when I read about this Orange Hot chocolate, I thought I should atleast try it for KOnda. The recipe calls for Grand Marnier or Cointreau and since I have neither, I decided to go ahead use the fresh juice. I was also thinking of fermenting the orange juice before using. However as things happened, I didn't. Since citrus reacts and turns sour, I didn't let this drink on heat for more than few minutes and allowed it to steep before drinking. Though I may not willing indulge in this again, Konda was all game for it.  Also do remember to top your drink with chocolate chip, that gives a good taste as you sip on it. Thinking about this, I guess it will surely make a good drink for breakfast along with a toast. Orange Hot Chocolate Makes 1 cup Ingr...

We are starting the first week of BM#61. I decided to do the theme 3 drinks from one ingredients. The inspiration for this theme came about when I was going through some site that had pretty pictures and the drinks simply came live!  I know I find it pretty hard to click drinks. simply maybe because I don't find enough time to stand still to plan well. And hot drinks become even more tough. So I was feeling what to do when I have to plan for a setup for these drinks, then I realized I was yet to make the drinks. This happened over the weekend, when Hubby dear was travelling. The entire Sunday was spent planning on cooking for the blog. After a long period of inactive, zombie existence, I got back my mojo in cooking for the blog. I wasn't about to give up without clicking atleast a dozen of them. I managed quite a few and very happy with my own creativity in imagining these drinks. Upfront I warned Konda that she will have to test few drinks for me. Of course when ...